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<h1><b>DOM Ugliness</b></h1><p>
<ul><li><h2>No method overloading</h2>
<li><h2>Short type constants for node types</h2>
<li><h2>Methods in the Node superinterface that only work for one or two subinterfaces</h2>
<li><h2>Incomplete: no standard loading or serialization</h2>
<li><h2>A single exception class with short type codes</h2>
<li><h2>Does not guarantee Java features like equals(), hashCode(), and toString()</h2>
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